Install Lotus Notes 9 on Ubuntu 13.04 64 bits

First of all, try the installation process specified in the section “Modify the deb package and install again”. This post is the full log of my installation, but I have had to reinstall again following the steps of this section because the system became unstable.

Once installed this bunch of packages, I try to install notes with –force-depends option, as suggested Charlie in the comments (I can see unsatisfied dependencies on some essential packages, as grep, see below for details) :

Collateral damages

When I try to install other packages, I’m getting errors. When I try to fix them, I get this error (slightly different from Usable Software’s blog):

$ sudo apt-get install gimp
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
You might want to run 'apt-get -f install' to correct these:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
gimp : Depends: libgimp2.0 (>= 2.8.4) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: libgimp2.0 (<= 2.8.4-z) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: gimp-data (>= 2.8.4) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: gimp-data (<= 2.8.4-z) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: libbabl-0.1-0 (>= 0.1.10) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: libgegl-0.2-0 (>= 0.2.0) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: libwebkitgtk-1.0-0 (>= 1.3.10) but it is not going to be installed
ibm-notes:i386 : Depends: gdb:i386 but it is not going to be installed
Depends: grep:i386 but it is not going to be installed
Depends: libcupsys2:i386 but it is not installable
Depends: libgconf2-4:i386 but it is not going to be installed
Depends: libgnome-desktop-2:i386 but it is not installable or
libgnome-desktop-2-7:i386 but it is not installable or
libgnome-desktop-2-11:i386 but it is not installable or
libgnome-desktop-2-17:i386 but it is not going to be installed or
libgnome-desktop-3-2:i386 but it is not installable
Depends: libpam0g:i386 but it is not going to be installed
Depends: libxkbfile1:i386 but it is not going to be installed
Recommends: ttf-xfree86-nonfree:i386 but it is not installable
E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt-get -f install' with no packages (or specify a solution).

And If I try the suggested -f (–fix-broken) option, I get into panic mode:

$ sudo apt-get -f install
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Correcting dependencies... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
gdb:i386 libpython2.7:i386 libpython2.7-minimal:i386 libpython2.7-stdlib:i386 libpython3-stdlib:i386 libpython3.3-minimal:i386
libpython3.3-stdlib:i386 libreadline6:i386
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
The following extra packages will be installed:
gdb:i386 grep:i386 libpython2.7:i386 libpython2.7-minimal:i386 libpython2.7-stdlib:i386 libpython3-stdlib:i386
libpython3.3-minimal:i386 libpython3.3-stdlib:i386 libreadline6:i386
Suggested packages:
gdb-doc:i386 gdbserver:i386
The following packages will be REMOVED:
gdb grep ibm-notes:i386
The following NEW packages will be installed:
gdb:i386 grep:i386 libpython2.7:i386 libpython2.7-minimal:i386 libpython2.7-stdlib:i386 libpython3-stdlib:i386
libpython3.3-minimal:i386 libpython3.3-stdlib:i386 libreadline6:i386
WARNING: The following essential packages will be removed.
This should NOT be done unless you know exactly what you are doing!
grep
0 upgraded, 9 newly installed, 3 to remove and 87 not upgraded.
Need to get 9956 kB of archives.
After this operation, 829 MB disk space will be freed.
You are about to do something potentially harmful.
To continue type in the phrase 'Yes, do as I say!'
?] no
Abort.

So, I decided to remove and purge lotus-notes package and fix packages again (now it’s ok, 0 packages to remove):

Modify the deb package and install again

For me this has worked. So If you have the same scenario as me (Lotus Notes 9.0 and Ubuntu 13.04 64 bits), it’s preferable to modify the deb package and install with no dependencies (see the Collateral damages section). Maybe you’ll have to install some dependencies if it does not work for you (I already installed it at the begginning of the post, but maybe some of them are unnecessary).

Like this:

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Hi.
I’ve tried to install Notes 9 on Ubuntu 14.04 Beta 2 release to see if works. I stuck with installing dependencies. It seems that some dependencies are not yet (or will not be) available in 14.04. I can’t install ia32-libs libgnomeprint2.2-0:i386 libg

I simply did the following: Extract the .deb as this article describes, change libcupsys2 to libcups2 in the dependency list, repackage the .deb as this article describes, install with package installer. All other dependencies are installed for you. This is on Linux Mint 16 64bit.